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The most noteworthy points of this Table are :—
1. A considerable reduction in the number of deaths
from Zymotic diseases generally, compared with
the total of the same maladies registered in 1869.
2. The total absence of all record of deaths from Small
Pox
3. A slight increase in the mortality, due to several
diseases of the non Zymotic class.
4. A decrease of deaths of infants-and young children,
from 59 in 1869 to 50 in the past year.
5. A decrease of 8 deaths of persons under 60, but an
increase of 18 of those registered between 60 and
80 years of age, and of 6 of those over 80 years
at the time of death, the two oldest of the last
named having reached the ripe age of 92.
6. The nearly equal proportions of the first three
classes collectively, mentioned under the heading
" Social Position," and those of the industrial of
labouring classes, viz., 72 of the latter to 73 of
the former.
It has been already observed that Small Pox has no
fatality assigned to it in the above Table, and it is a circumstance
not a little gratifying to find that since 1864, and
down to a very recent period (February, 1871) the same
absence of all record of deaths from this malady has been
noted.
The last return of the Local Registrar will show that
fewer children than usual born within the year have escaped
the performance of the important operation of Vaccination.
In a similar Return inserted in my last Report it was shown
that of 248 children born within the year 1869, the large